Ballygahan Lower

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygahan Lower, from 177 m² to 27,376 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygahan Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Sept 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing dilapidated dwelling, the construction of a proposed new single storey dwelling, upgrade of effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221010

• 25 Jul 2022Refused

  the erection of a shed type structure for use as a personal gym

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22817

• 21 Dec 2021Refused

  the erection of a shed structure for use as a personal gym

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211543

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) A 63.90 m2 single storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling. (2) A 33.75 m2 art studio extension to the existing 28.13 m2 garage. (3) A 140.74 m2 multi purpose shed and (4) all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21253

• 16 Aug 2017Refused

  existing entrance, a driveway and a 40 sqm mobile home to be used as a small wild animal rescue centre

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17992

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballygahan Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygahan Lower.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygahan Lower.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3264 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ballygahan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballygahan Lower · Baile Gatháin Íochtarach

Area

367,539 m² (36.75 ha, 90.82 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ovoca, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ovoca electoral division: 728 people in 263 households; 74% of households own their home; 10% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygahan Upper, Ballymurtagh, Cherrymount, Kilcashel, Tigroney West, Tinnahinch

Placenames

Ballygahan Lower on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.